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It’s Deer Season!

Sunday hunting was legalized last year for archery only.
I did all my prep-work . . .
I scouted the area all summer. . .
I searched out the best location for my tree-stand . . …
I set it all up a month ahead of time . . .
I trailed the herd . . .
I picked out a trophy buck .. ..
Two days before opening day I rechecked every aspect of the hunt . .. .
Everything was in place . . ..
Sunday morning, I woke up at 2 am . .. .
I put on my camo, loaded my pack, set out for my stand . . .
This was destined to be an epic hunt . . ..
As I approached my deer stand . .

I attribute much of my success in life to my short stature and early wakefulness. It made me try harder, and forced me to solve problems with my mind. Problems like “how do I get a bowl out of that cabinet up there so I can eat before mom gets out of bed”.

I can’t wait to be a parasite. I’m going to be a parasite in Hawai’i though. Probably Oahu since they have more food banks. I do have a beach picked out on Kaua’i if they ever get their transportation/free food stuff figured out. I may have to Island hop.

No snow here, but my neighbor (Dr. Mike) has this cypress tree that dumps hate leaves into my pool in the fall, requiring me to clean them up. Not griping too much, Dr. Mike hooked me up with his housekeeper and yard guy, both of whom do fine work.

Dr. Mike is an interesting guy. He’s actually a doctor, but spends most of his time traveling all over the world as a food writer. I think he’s at home about 15% of the time. I thought I used to travel a lot, but this guy is amazing. His real home is an airplane.

Hey, I’m sure all it needs is some paint and after you grease the vacuum pump with some hate it will work fine. Looks like it will store easily too. You can put it in your desk when you’re not using it.

Looks like our rulers are sniffing around 401(k)s and the mortgage interest deduction again. Levin thinks they will come after your retirement savings. I wish that guy weren’t correct so often.

But, you’ll get a voucher for every penny in your 401(k)! That voucher is guaranteed, too, by the full . . . oh, sorry, by the Nameless Ones at the Social Security Administration. Just don’t make eye contact (& try to not look at the name plaque on the desk: if those syllables get into your mind we can’t be responsible for your soul being stripped from your body, breaded, & deep fried by the Ancient Ones) & that Obama Cash™ will keep pouring into your Fully Vested & Secured Social Security Trust Fund (in ever increasing amounts, I might add. For instance, this year you qualify for $830/mo, & by next year that’ll be up to $45,000/mo, an increase of 5300%!!!).

Also, uh, inflation has been legally capped at 200%, so your money is definitely safe. Seriously, we have price controls. Those work perfectly.

How does it matter, when no one will enforce the law, Leon? Republicans are vastly outnumbered in the state legislature. We also have a balanced budget requirement in the state constitution, but he has violated that each year running. And the courts are his tools and useless to us, too.

It’s not Obamites. It’s America that wants it. We, who believe in personal responsibility, the Constitution and American exceptionalism, are now an ever-decreasing minority. I see nothing to reverse the trends of the last 30 years.

The America I spent 30 years defending will be gone in my lifetime. I’m sorry I couldn’t do more to save it.

I know, I was just expressing my opinion of young men’s haircuts in a tangential manner.
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I can’t have an opinion on abortion because I don’t have a vagina, so you can’t talk about hair because you don’t have any.

>> I’m against the fact that ObamaCare has inflated costs by so much that they felt it necessary.

I wish that was the worst of it. The worst of it is that current private plans have about an 85% actuarial value, with catastrphic caps – basically the plan pays 85% you pay 15%

Obamaplans have an actuarial value of 60%. Employers will have to adjust their plans downward or else all the healthy kids go buy O-care and employers are stuck with the more expensive enrollees. There is no way around this, carriers and companies will be forced to adjust actuarial values to 60%.

I haven’t been paying attention much, other than to complain. I haven’t watched tv news since the election but I read ace and hot air.

I really don’t think the details matter. I believe we’re in for at least 5 years like the last 5, if not more.

The 80s had a huge reduction in tax rates and the introduction of efficiency with personal computers to spur growth. The 90s had the internet. The 2000s had real estate values soaring, leading to wealth creation (and ultimately destruction). What do we have? Green energy? Ha! That’s a total scam used to pay back political patrons.

I’m assuming the country will grow at about half the historical norm, which is basically nothing.

Home broken into 8 times before. They were suspected in at least one of the earlier break-ins by the homeowner. The girl may have been looking for drugs. I wonder if he pretended to be out to bait them?

– 2 kids out breaking into houses on Thanksgiving? OK maybe..
– After listening to her cousin get shot twice, she decides to walk down into the basement?
– She laughs at him after being shot and falling down stairs?

Speaking of parasites…..coworker was telling me that she would work more but she is collecting disability.

Another coworker, who got ‘hurt’ while in the freezer which was not witnessed, received workman’s comp and then a settlement from our employer. Over 10K. She and husband, who gets disability and many many drugs via Medicaid ( fat ass doesn’t take care of himself), are now looking for a house and she says that they only have enough money to pay closing costs. Once they buy said house, she is going to quit her job and go on disability too. Getting a loan based on the amount the husband receives in ‘benefits’.

Now that husband can sit upright and does the housecleaning at home. How the f*ck can’t he find work work, outside the home?

And someone tell me why I should continue to do things the right way when I have to subsidize so many f*cking stupid parasites? Or am I the stupid one?

Oh, oh, and another lady that used to work with us but quit and moved out to CA, to be with her son and grandkids, came for a visit this past weekend.
She came to this country about 7-8 years ago, became a citizen 2 years ago. Her husband, who never worked in the US, receives SSI.

MJ, I just discovered Youtube has dozens of 2 hr long trance tracks.
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Well, welcome to whatever century we’re in. I find this sort of strange, but I recently rediscovered Big Head Todd and I love it.

And by “waxed my Beemer” I mean, as I was up on a stepstool to use the buffer on the roof, I put my hand on the roof. As soon as I put some weight on it, it slipped on the wax. And my face hit the roof hard. If I had teeth, I would have broken some. And dropped the buffer, which, last I saw of it was trying to shine the cul-de-sac. And fell off the stepstool and landed on my shapely, but now bruised, ass.

Laura,
I find that very strange, as a northwest native. The native fruits here are Beeble-Berries(Brambles), with a few Himalayan Black-berries, and some “Mountain Blackberries”.
Those are tiny, and tart/sweet, and wonderful for pies, but, as they are small, you need to get a lot of them.
Many folks pick the “Bramble-Berries”, as they are BIG, and it’s easy to get enough for a pie. They are mostly water and bland, and they SUCK!
BUT, folks can say; “I picked these Wild Black-Berries and made a pie!”
We have no wild grapes…

Anita is reading “American Sniper”, and observed that Chris K and his brothers were leaving the Marvel Comics “Punisher” stencil in their wake.
I saw that referred to on many of the mil-blogs, and the Day-by-Day comic.
Ahmed would just end-up dead, nobody around, and that stencil would be on the wall.
Reminded of the article I read the other day about a couple Aussie snipers going after a target 1.2 miles away. They had Barret-882s(50-Cal). They fired at the same time, the flight-time of the rounds was 6-seconds(picture the drop), and the guy exploded. Neither he, nor his compadries, heard the shot. He just blowed-up!
Ain’t technology grand?

1. Short term: all media people should be challenged on their bias. I have no idea how to do this other than constantly talking about the partisan nature of mainstream journalists. Forget the NYT. Forget MSNBC. I’m talking about George Snuffalubpogus, Diane Sawyer, Scott Pelley, Chuck Todd, etc. They have all voted 100% democrat, have worked for democrats, and only associate with democrats. Could you imagine Dana Perino being given consideration as an MSM news host? What about Ari Fleisher? This is corruption, pure and simple and it needs to be mentioned on every newscast, during every interview, during every segment. This can be done in an amiable way, such as, “I’m xxx Senator from the state of xxx representing the republican party. Before we start the interview I think it would be instructive for your audience to know the point of view that you are presenting. My point of view is clear. You have worked for democrats and have voted for democrats your entire life, correct?” I’m sure this would be edited out, or would end the interview in some cases, but if republicans were disciplined it would become the price of admission for all interviews. There is expected bias in many places, but the low information voters that swing elections don’t know that they are being fooled. They are the mark in the con, not the consumers of the typical partisan outlets.

2. Long term: The personal lives of the media people needs to come under serious scrutiny. It would be instructive to hear about the social habits of mainstream leftists in positions of objective power. I guarantee that making an example of one of them will instill fear in the rest. This has been a bit of a third rail, but those times have passed. Jimmy Carter’s grandson was instrumental in secretly taping Romney making is ‘47%’ remarks illegally, but was given a pass on his behavior. Had the tables been turned the conservative in that position would have been personally destroyed in order to deflect from the meat of the story. It’s sad, but we need to treat everyone on the left as if they are Anthony Weiner–because many of them are. Everyone is fair game as is every aspect of their lives.

MJ, at the gym I was discussing politics with my group and I mentioned that EVERYTHING comes down to media. Everything. An independent media is essential to a functioning democracy and they,imho, can be blamed for the FUBAR position we’re in.

Everything.

I mean, snakes will be snakes. Liars will be liars. They’ll continue on just as they have. It’s the media that has given them power.

A lot of what I believed to be true isn’t quite so. I believed that the message and the messenger could be a marriage of convenience.

Not so.

I thought that the media could be worked around. Nope.

I believed that the country was still essentially center right. Not really.

I’m trying very hard to examine what needs to change in order to get back to a basic conservative principles and I’m in agreement with many that the culture has been dragged too far to the left. I would describe the media as the biggest piece of the culture pie chart, and the MSM to be the biggest section of the media.

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night. The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me. How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?